The world's largest consumer electronics companies are dealing a significant blow to the future of ultrawideband (UWB) technology today with an announcement regarding the formation of a new standard for wireless distribution of HD content in the home, WirelessHD.
Under the direction of the WirelessHD Consortium, seven companies including LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp. (Panasonic brand), NEC Corp., Samsung Electronics, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., and SiBEAM Inc., will work to make WirelessHD the new standard for delivering content over short distances.
WirelessHD is a 60-GHz millimeter-wave technology designed by SiBEAM to deliver HD content up to 32-feet (within the same room), and is ideal, the consortium says, for connecting set-top boxes to televisions and home theater installations without the need for spaghetti-like wiring behind the TV.
For more information, visit www.wirelesshd.org.











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